iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown
We got our hands on Apple's newest tablet, the iPad 2 on March 11, 2011. Follow us on Twitter to get all the latest updates. Finally!!! The iPad has come back to iFixit! And this time, it has a 2 ...
Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam
Japanese are using social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Mixi as cell phone networks are jammed following the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northern Japan on Friday...
iPad 2 line watch: the few, the proud, the soaking wet (updating)
Last night you couldn't walk down the street in New York City without becoming seriously soaked and breaking your umbrella, but you didn't really think that would stop those crazy Apple fans, did you?
Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don't Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals
For much of the past year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Ever since Twitter bought Tweetie and turned it into their own native iPhone app, third-party developers …
US Proposals For Secret TPP ‘Son Of ACTA’ Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas
We've mentioned a couple of times that now that ACTA is “complete”, if not yet approved, USTR negotiators have moved on to what many are calling the son of ACTA in the form of the Trans Pacific Partne...
Sean Parker, Music Mogul? Facebook Billionaire Mulling Warner Music Bid
Sean Parker helped create Napster, which kicked off the long and steep decline of the big music labels. Soon he might own part of one. — The digital entrepreneur is considering putting his money in...
iPhone 5 Design Images with Larger Edge-to-Edge Screen?
iDealsChina claims to have engineering diagrams of the new iPhone 5. The images look pretty much like an iPhone 4 with the exception of a larger screen which seems to take up a larger portion of the ...
Motorola Xoom sales tepid; Production cuts next?
With Apple launching the iPad 2 Friday, Motorola Mobility may be forced to scramble to bolster sales of the Xoom tablet. — Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on Friday argued that earnings estimates for ...
DOJ wins access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts
A federal judge in Virginia today granted federal prosecutors access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, including information about what Internet and e-mail addresses are associated with them. — ...
Nokia: Transition to Windows Phone to take about two years
Nokia filed on March 11 a form 20-F with the Securities and Exchange Commission which mentions a number of new tidbits about Nokia's smartphone-centric partnership with Microsoft. — The document con...
Big Money For Google Execs In 2011
Four Google senior vice presidents will each collect more than $5 million in bonuses in 2011, according to a new filing with the SEC. — The big winners: — Nikesh Arora, chief business officer: $20 ...
Google's Tarnished Chrome
The search and advertising company once seemed to do no wrong. Now members of Congress aren't so sure. — Reps. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, cochairmen of the Bipartisan Privacy ...
Bloomberg Game Changers: Twitter
“Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. This program features interviews with Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey; Mike Maples, founder and managing ...
Windows Phone 7 marketplace hits 10,000 apps, Microsoft WP7 updates still way outnumbered
It's a milestone in the life of any OS: the day you reach that magical 10,000 app number. Windows Phone 7 is the latest kindred soul to achieve the feat, accomplishing the task in just over four and ...
Chrome VP: No More Cr-48s, Chrome OS Devices This Summer
Google has been very tight-lippped about the supply of Cr-48s, who they are going to and when shipments will stop. But in a tweet sent out by VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai, the shipment of C...
Marissa Mayer: 40% Of Google Maps Usage Is Mobile (And There Are 150 Million Mobile Users)
Today at a SXSW talk, Google VP Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk about location — mobile location, in particular. The theme isn't a surprise since Mayer recently shifted her role …
Apple May Sell 600,000 IPad 2s in Debut, Outpacing First Model
Apple Inc. (AAPL) may sell 600,000 of the second version of the iPad when it debuts this weekend, extending the device's lead in a crowding market. — The iPad 2 goes on sale on Apple's website at 4 ...
Tokyo earthquake, tsunami puts data centers, cloud services at risk
Japan was reeling after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that slammed into Tokyo at midday local time. As a result, much of the Pacific Ocean is under a tsunami warning. The disaster comes as...
Online iPad 2 orders from Apple estimated to ship in 2-3 weeks [u]
Apple on Friday began accepting orders online for the iPad 2, and the first buyers were told to expect the tablet to ship within two to three weeks [updated]. — While initial orders were said to shi...
Update on Flash Player 10.2 for mobile devices
Today we are happy to announce that Flash Player 10.2 will be available for download via Android Market on March 18th. Flash Player 10.2 is a production GA (General Availability) release for Android ...
Motorola Xoom sales tepid; Production cuts next?
With Apple launching the iPad 2 Friday, Motorola Mobility may be forced to scramble to bolster sales of the Xoom tablet. — Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on Friday argued that earnings estimates for ...
Disqus to Facebook: “We Aren't Shaking In Our Boots”
Last night, reading a TechCrunch profile of the weeks-old startup Zaarly, it was possible to imagine that the company — whose mobile app connects people with things that they don't have the time or re...
Instapaper 3.0 is here!
Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I've updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is the biggest update Instapaper has ev...
Apple's Jobs Razzes Chip Partner Samsung
The South Korean conglomerate makes the speedy chips in Apple's mobile devices but can't create a hit of its own — Steve Jobs likes to poke bears. The Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer has ribbe...
Amazon Ditches Illinois Affiliates (Including Roger Ebert) To Avoid Web Tax
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill into law Thursday that will require Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other internet retailers that use “affiliates” in the state to start paying the state's 6.25 perce...
FCC has had enough with GPS and cell jammers
Did you know US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February announced [pdf] that they were going to step up their enforcement against GPS jammer devices? They want everyone to know that marke...
Charlie Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit
VANCOUVER — Charlie Miller kept his Pwn2Own winning streak intact with another successful hack of an Apple product. — Miller (right), renowned for his work breaking into MacBook machines with Safari...
China's Facebook Syndrome
Censorship hinders access to China's online markets — Since 2009, China has blocked Facebook, the world's largest online social media network. This year, Renren, one of China's largest social netwo...
Dell's Number Two In The PC Market Again, Thanks To The iPad
Having languished in third place behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer for some time, Dell finally scrambled its way back to the PC market's number two spot during the fourth quarter of 2010, a new survey b...
E-Book Lending Takes Off
New Online Clubs That Let Readers Share Have Drawbacks but Worry Publishers — Electronic-book lending isn't just for friends anymore. — In the past few months, online clubs with such names as Book...
What the New Foursquare Says About Geo-Local's Future
Towards the end of 2010, I had a long chat with Dennis Crowley, co-founder and CEO of the New York-based startup Foursquare. I really wanted to talk to him about the state of geo-local, which seemed ...
After Amazon, Masterobjects Takes Google To Court Over Instant Search Patent
Yesterday, I broke the story of a small search software outlet named Masterobjects taking on Amazon.com in a notable patent infringement lawsuit. — The patent-in-suit, US patent no. 7,752,326 …